Market Makers

Digital Asset Trader Auros to Invest Over $50M in Crypto Startups Through Its Newly Established VC Arm
Auros Ventures aims to make concentrated bets on crypto startups to help them scale with Auros being "power user," Auros co-founder and CIO Ben Roth said in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk.

Crypto Market Maker GSR Appoints Former JPMorgan Executive as Head of Trading
The new hire happens as digital asset markets are maturing and have become increasingly intertwined with traditional finance.

Market Maker KeyRock Secures Swiss Anti-Money Laundering Clearance
The Brussels-based crypto firm joins the likes of BitGo in being approved by standards body VQF.

‘You Can Do Nothing’: Crypto Trading Titans Are Yelling at Each Other on Elon Musk’s X
“I never thought that you could be THAT scared of us,” DWF’s Andrei Grachev posted on X. Wintermute’s Evgeny Gaevoy: “We are trembling in your presence.”

Binance Is Contacting Low-Cap Crypto Projects in Bid to Boost Trading
The crypto exchange is conducting a "risk management initiative" targeting some crypto projects with a relatively small market capitalization or whose tokens form lower-liquidity trading pairs.

GSR Turns Up DeFi Activity in Strategic Shift
“We just see DeFi overtaking centralized exchanges as a preferred liquidity venue,” Jake Dwyer said.

Ripple Is Looking to Build a Market-Making Platform for XRP: Sources
The company, still mired in legal action in the U.S., is hiring in London and Singapore.

Solana-Based Oxygen Taps Jump Trading in Bid to Be DeFi’s Top ‘Prime Brokerage’
Oxygen will enter its beta stage in the next two to three months, co-founder Alex Grebnev said.

Apifiny Offers 'Exchange of Exchanges' for Professional Crypto Traders
The firm’s new service brings traders easier access to over 20 of the top 100 crypto exchanges.

Crypto Trading Platform Apifiny Plans to Go Public
The San Francisco-based firm did not say if it would choose a direct listing.

